A brain injury can affect anyone. For this reason, TBI on the Hill strives to be nonpartisan.
A hot topic in the past few decades, illegal immigration has now come to the forefront because of America’s current president and his border wall. (For the past 10 years, the estimated number of illegal immigrants in America has stayed relatively stable at about 11...
read morePeople now see football and brain injury as a definite cause-and-effect. Parents are much more hesitant to allow their school-aged children join the school football team. In January, for example, laws related to youth football were proposed in Illinois and New York,...
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A stroke, the stop of blood flow to the brain, is a common brain injury: occurring every 40 seconds in America. While strokes are more common in the 65+ age range, they can happen to anyone and at any time. By Presidential Proclamation, National Stroke Awareness...
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Getting an extra 30 minutes of sleep while you’re on the road… finishing yesterday’s homework while you’re on your way to your senior year of high school… caring for your baby while you’re breezing through the highway. All of these scenarios seemed too good to be...
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For me and many others, David Copperfield is the nation’s foremost illusionist/magician. He even earned a spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. From 1974 until last week, his magic has been just that; Copperfield could do what seemed impossible. In 2013, an...
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When I was in brain injury rehabilitation, all I knew and strived for was to return to my “old self”. I saw my disability as an almost impassable obstacle in the road of my life, filled with negative consequences. However, more recently, I have identified mental...
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The federal Traumatic Brain Injury Act provides many benefits to survivors. For example, much of the research that I reference on this website is done by organizations funded through the Act. When it was originally signed into law in 1996, the TBI Act...
read moreMelissa Gilbert (D), known for her role as Laura Ingalls in the 1974 to 1983 television series ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and former president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), has halted her bid for Congress in the 8th Congressional District in Michigan. Regarding...
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On Friday, December 21, 2018, “H.R. 6615, which reauthorizes appropriations for programs and activities relating to the study, prevention, and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI),” was signed into law by President Trump. Officially called the...
read moreThis past week, Muhammad Ali lost his long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease*, but the memory of Ali is still very much in the minds of our politicians. On May 26, Rep. Mullin (R-OK), a former professional mixed martial arts fighter, introduced H.R. 5365, the...
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